Park Mead Primary

Year 4

Mrs Bell

4BR (Mon - Tue)

Mrs Richardson

4BR (Wed - Fri)

Mrs Gilbertson

4G (Mon- Fri)

Mrs Davies

4G / 4BR (Mon - Fri am)

Autumn 2

We hope you had a super half-term. We are excited to return to school on Monday, 3rd November. We have a fun-filled Autumn term with lots of new, exciting topics across the curriculum.

This page will be regularly updated to keep parents, carers, and children informed of what we are learning about at school.

Drop-off and collection times:

Drop-off: 8:40 am (Register taken at 8:50 am)

Collection: 3:20 pm

Daily Equipment:

Please ensure your child brings their homework diary and a reading book in each day.
They are also welcome to bring in a small pencil case with a pencil, ruler, rubber, sharpener, black handwriting pen, purple pen and colouring pencils.
As we are an all-weather school, children should bring a coat with them each day, as they will be outside at playtimes unless the weather is terrible.

Dates for Autumn Term 2

October

October half-term - 27th to 31st October

November

Monday 3rd - return to school

Fri 21st Non uniform day (in exchange for Christmas fair donations)

Mon 24th Year 4 dress rehearsal to parents 2:15pm, main hall

Wed 26th Year 4 production to parents 2:15pm, main hall

Thurs 27th Year 4 production to parents 2:15pm, main hall

December

Mon 8th Flu immunisations

Fri 12th Mrs Claus’s Christmas shop, am in the sports hall

Fri 12th PTFA Christmas discos

Mon 15th Christmas concert 3:20pm – 4:30pm, main school hall

Thurs 18th Break up for Christmas holidays

Fri 19th INSET day

PE days

4BR: children will need to be in their P.E. kit on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

4G: children will need to be in their P.E. kit on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

In Y4 the children will be having swimming lessons. Each class will have a total of 11 sessions each at Cranleigh School

This term will begin with 4BR every Tuesday morning, starting on 16th September until Tuesday 6th Jan 2026.

4G will then swim every Tuesday morning, starting on 13th January until 21st April

Top-up swimming lessons will take place for invited children. On swimming days, children are to come to school dressed in their PE kits, with their swimming things in a separate bag (goggles are optional but recommended). Please ensure that children have long hair tied back, ready for the lesson.

Maths We follow the White Rose scheme of learning.

More information is available here: White Rose Website

Autumn 2

Area

Pupils will be taught to:

measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres
find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares
relate area to arrays and multiplication.

Multiplication and Division

Pupils will be taught to:

recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together 3 numbers
recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations
multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout
solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two-digit numbers by 1 digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects

Maths homework :

Homework sessions will be set on TTRockstars.

This will be 15 minutes on Garage each week plus 2 soundcheck games. Garage helps them to learn the tables they are not yet confident with, and Soundcheck prepares them for the Multiplication Tables Check. Once the set homework is complete, children can play any of the games for additional practice, including 'Jamming' to practise specific tables without the timer; 'Studio' to increase speed and Rock Status; and 'Soundcheck' to prepare for the summer term times tables test.

https://ttrockstars.com/

A maths homework sheet will also be sent home each Friday to be returned the following Friday. This will be additional arithmetic practice to aid children's fluency and familiarity with written methods that have been learned at school.

English

As a school, we use Talk4Writing as a framework- all units are based on this.

Autumn 2

We are basing our first fictional writing on the book The Lost Happy Endings. We will utilise the key skills we have been developing so far this year to create a short story of our own, full of atmosphere and rich description, to engage and capture the reader's attention. The writing skills we are developing include using conjunctions, adverbs, and prepositions to express time, place, or cause, using commas after fronted adverbials, creating paragraphs to group and organize ideas, and using prepositions to show where things are.